obama having defended this policy of giving. we knew what was loans. the we couldn't be sure if it would be repaid. giving money to people who had been part of the problem. his criticism was probably a political necessity on his part. it was an effort to drain off some of the anger. we have two periods here. before and after the aig bonuses. chris got unfairly blamed. he said you cannot do a retroactively. that is one all of the anger unleashed. >> but whatever political demonization happened, whether or not, myssary question, i go to you, neel, is this. originallyp. was conceived, you thought the banks were going to keep the money for how long? is reason i ask the question because they gave it back very, very quickly. some people think that's a good was nott clearly that part of the plan. >> we wanted -- our entire goal economy fromt the collapsing so we wanted to put as much capital in the financial writ large at possible and have it sit this so we it to be at least three years and have it sit there for a period of time. for politicalged reasons and